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CVE-2012-5543

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Feeds module 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.0-alpha6 for Drupal, when a field is mapped to the node's author, does not properly check permissions, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary nodes via a crafted source feed.

Affected products

• Feeds Project Feeds: 7.x-2.0-alpha1, 7.x-2.0-alpha2, 7.x-2.0-alpha3, 7.x-2.0-alpha4, 7.x-2.0-alpha5, 7.x-2.x

References

• http://drupal.org/node/1808832
• http://drupalcode.org/project/feeds.git/commitdiff/a538c20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4
• http://drupal.org/node/1808832
• http://drupalcode.org/project/feeds.git/commitdiff/a538c20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/4

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